Letter to an Ex

Dear Ex,

Thank you. And when I say thank you, it's a thank you for breaking up with me. You didn't know that when I told you thank you. But that's what it's for. It's a thank you for teaching me what I didn't want in a relationship. It's a thank you for making me realize just what childish and clingy means. It's a thank you for making me realize that you clouded my judgment. And although I was happy with you at one point in my life, I have realized just how much of a child I was back then. And now, with my big girl job with an editor who already loves me after a week and with the guy I almost didn't see because of you who has every quality I've looked for in my life, I'm thankful.

I'm thankful for getting my life back. You did teach me a lot about self confidence, but when I found out what you said after our relationship to my best friends, yeah, thank you for dumping me. Through that, I saw the true you and I won't miss you. Thought they would never tell me? Yeah, go eat dust. They're my girls. Of course they told me.

But you know, one thing I've learned is that what really doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. Because now I watch myself go places. I was on the front page of my very first article for my new job. Does that say something about my success? Yeah it does. Oh what are you doing? Oh yeah, nothing.

Defriend me on Facebook. Do whatever you want. But I don't care a bit. Because I have seen how amazing the world is without you anywhere around. I've stepped into a new, career focused life supported by a man who truly loves me for me, something I doubt you ever did sometimes.

So thank you for dumping me because if we had never ended, I would never have realized just how messed up it was and all the amazing things that I was missing.

Sincerely,
The Girl